Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 11 May 2021
Public Accounts Committee
Financial Statements and Accounts
9:30 am
Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats)
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Yes. With regard to the work of the Comptroller and Auditor General in terms of looking at such significant spend and not having an integrated system, what does that present in terms of the issues or problems? We know the HSE has a significant staff and spend. The past year showed the kind of exposure from not having systems in place in terms of not being able to achieve value for money, with various parts of an organisation doing different things. I am curious to hear what difference it would make. I refer to the time it has taken for this to be put in place. I appreciate that funding for some aspects of this was not made available for some time, but how is it possible even to do a comparison?